In 1989 Prino set a 24-hour world record for hitchhiking. It was mentioned
in the 1991 UK edition of the Guinness Book of Records. (You can read the
two letters from Guinness that resulted in the record being included here)
Note that if you look at an actual copy of the Guinness Book of Records from 1991 (on
page 179), you will see that the people of Guinness wrongly converted the
2,318.4 km to 1,440.7 miles, but using the “spare” “6” in the text, Prino
carefully converted this to the correct 1,440.6 miles.Famous for 15 minutes…
Here are the full details of the four rides that gave him his “15 minutes of fame”.
1991 Guinness Book of Records entry
Trip 10, ride 22
Departure from Evzoni (GR-YU border) at 1989-07-04T21:35, odometer reading 108,256.3
Arrival at Raststätte Siegburg, West-Germany at 1989-07-05T18:51, odometer reading 110,366.9